Elevation of Kura, Kano, Nigeria

Kura, Kano, Nigeria is 472 m (1,549 ft) above sea level.

Kura's height from sea level is 472 metres, or 1,549 feet. GeoNames reads 477 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

445 m – 476 m

Mean 462 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 31 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 47

among the towns of Kano, and 179th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

Karfi

8.5 km to the NE, at 451 m, 21 m lower.

Cross-section through Kura

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kura; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 484 m at 14 km west to 433 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 447 m at 14 km north to 491 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kura, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Kura

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Karfi	8.5 km	NE	451 m (1,480 ft)	−21 m
Dan Hassan	9.5 km	E	442 m (1,450 ft)	−30 m
Bunkure	14.6 km	SE	478 m (1,568 ft)	+6 m
Dawaki	20.4 km	NE	455 m (1,493 ft)	−17 m
Bebeji	21.3 km	SW	508 m (1,667 ft)	+36 m

Peaks and passes near Kura

Gafan Hill, hill at 575 m (1,886 ft), 11.9 km to the S — 103 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Kura is

Latitude 11.7713889, longitude 8.4302778. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Kura's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 477 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.